| Peggy Drexler,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is a former Stanford University Gender Scholar whose current studies focus on the changing American family. Her book,
Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men earned both wide praise
(Finalist Lamda Literary Award and Finalist Books For A Better Life
Award) and sharp right-wing attacks for research showing that effective parenting comes in many forms -- including single by choice mothers and lesbian couples. She is an in-demand speaker, contributor and source of expert opinion on gender, family and the lives of boys for a wide range of national and international organizations and media. Among them: Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School, Good Morning America, TODAY,
Newsweek, USA TODAY, The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Houston
Chronicle, The Observer (United Kingdom), Cosmopolitan, Parents Magazine,
Washingtonpost.com, Huffington Post and The Bulletin
of the Menninger Clinic.
She is currently working on a new book about fathers and daughters.
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